kris kobach

Kris William Kobach, ['koʊbɑk] (born March 26, 1966) is the Secretary of State of Kansas. He has served since 2011. A former chairman of Kansas Republican Party and city councilman in Overland Park, Kansas, he ran for Kansas's 3rd congressional district in 2004 and lost.Kobach came to prominence over his hardline views on immigration, and his involvement in the diffusion of high-profile anti-immigration ordinances in various American towns. None of the ordinances that he helped put in place still stand, and some of localities went bankrupt over legal costs involved in defending the statutes. He is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States and a Muslim registry. He has made claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States that studies and fact-checkers have concluded are false or unsubstantiated.As Secretary of State of Kansas, Kobach implemented some of the strictest voter ID laws in the United States, and has fought to remove nearly 20,000 registered voters from the state's voter rolls. In June 2018, a Kansas Federal Judge found the voter ID law unconstitutional. Despite considerable investigation and prosecution, Kobach secured only nine convictions for voter fraud. All were cases of double voting; most were older Republican men who had misunderstood their voting rights, and not one would have been prevented by his strict voter ID "SAFE" Act.On June 8, 2017, Kobach formally announced his campaign for Governor of Kansas in the 2018 election. In 2017, he was appointed the Vice Chairman and "driving force" behind the President Trump's Commission on Election Integrity, which purported to quantify the extent of voter fraud in the United States, but which critics said was intended to disenfranchise or deter legal voters. The Trump administration dissolved the commission on January 3, 2018.On August 7, 2018, Kobach won the Republican gubernatorial primary with 41% of the votes over Governor Jeff Colyer by 191 votes. Democratic Senator Laura Kelly easily won the Democratic nomination. Greg Orman's Independent candidacy for the post is expected to be certified. He ran against incumbent Pat Roberts for the U.S. Senate seat in 2014. Wikipedia